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Showing 1 to 20 of 137 for “"process tracing"”.
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The U.S. Air Force Transformed Approach to Military Family Housing: An Organizational Routine Case Study in Change and Learning
… family housing units. Using an outcome-oriented process tracing methodology, I examine the process changes, organizational structure modifications, and strategy adjustments the AF instituted to implement this latest attempt at providing military family housing. To understand how those adjustments …
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Local governments' changing power in South Africa's energy system: reshaping the regulatory space for renewable energy, from the bottom up
… and 2016, was undertaken, applying the method of process tracing to two case studies. In order to contextualise these bottom-up processes within the national political economy of energy, process tracing was also applied in a high-level analysis of countervailing movements that consolidate …
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Entrée, Schemata, and Size of Effort: an Analysis of Us Grand Strategy, Policy, Strategy, and Plan Development Processes
… empirically analyzes the practices and processes by which US bureaucratic agents develop grand strategies, policies, strategies, and plans since the end of the Cold War. Most scholarship, especially regarding grand strategy and strategy, is normative or didactic. If it is empirical, then …
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The Impact of Foreign Aid on Internal Stability: A Case Study of Costa Rica and Venezuela
… efforts. Through extensive case study and process tracing analysis of twelve foreign aid projects in Venezuela and Costa Rica, this thesis examines the question: Does foreign aid impact the internal stability of the recipient state? Although Costa Rica and Venezuela have different levels of …
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From Colonialism to Neo-colonialism: The British Politics of Nationalist Violence in Cyprus
… case study of the Cyprus Conflict utilizes the process-tracing of archives, primary documents, and scholarly articles to emphasize the British colonial power as the catalyst and driver for the nationalist violence in Cyprus.
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Spinning Straw into Gold: A Study of Resource Creation, Flow, and Conversion in a Nonprofit Collaboration
… organizations struggle financially. Through process tracing, the study identified resource inputs and documented their flow and transformation to discern the mechanisms of their mobilization and conversion. Process tracing was also used to assess seven rival hypotheses to explain the …
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Arguing Security: Rhetoric, Media Environment, and Threat Legitimation
In this dissertation, I study the process of gaining public consent about a security threat, or threat legitimation. Threats require legitimation because they are social facts and not objective truths or subjective perceptions. I argue rhetorical resources and strategies affect threat legitimation. …
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It takes two to tango. El Acuerdo de Asociación Estratégica Unión Europea-MERCOSUR
… la temática en cuestión. A través del método del process tracing, se identifican las diferentes variables que explican los vaivenes en la negociación del Acuerdo para, eventualmente, desembocar en la conclusión de esta en un momento en particular.
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Ebola in West Africa : The Unintended consequences of the response to the western African Ebola crisis 2014-2016
… focus areas of this project. The central goal is tracing the course of decision making and actions of the main actors involved in responding to the Ebola epidemic of 2014-2016. This will be achieved through the method of process tracing: unveiling the causal mechanism between the actions taken by …
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The role of the bidding process in the corporate governance of bidding firms: the case of abandoned acquisitions
… empirical investigation, which uses the causal process tracing (CPT) method, not previously adopted in this field. The work builds cumulatively, to analyse the causal mechanisms, in cases of abandoned acquisitions, involving UK bidding firms. To enhance the identification of the nature of the …
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Investing in new electricity generation in South Africa : what short-circuited decision-making, 1998-2014?
… narrative was used, this was supported by process tracing that identified the key period of research as the years 1998- 2004. The paper explored themes of administrative complexity, competing stakeholders and multiple objectives. It was found that the crisis could be credibly explained as …
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Using Discourse Opportunity as a Measure of Potential Power in Zoning Amendments
… examines the zoning amendment, one of the many processes that comprise local government in the United States. I explore a phenomenon of public frustration in the zoning amendment process to develop a better understanding of it and contribute to the larger body of knowledge concerning the …
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Neišpildytos separatistinės ambicijos bei vidinės (de)stabilizacijos požymiai: SNP partijos atvejo studija /
… employs extreme case study and theory-testing process tracing methods to examine SNP party change over the period of 2014-2023. Utilising an integrated theory of party goals and party change, the nature of the SNP was established as a party seeking policy implementation. It was also found that, …
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Renewable Energy: The Roles of States, Social Movements, and Policy in California and Germany
… The argument uses a qualitative, comparative, process tracing methodology, supported by critical discourse analysis, to analyze environmental social movement engagements with the state in relation to the development of renewable energy policymaking in the state of California and in the Federal …
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Not my brother's keeper: How ethnic violence causes infighting
… both large-n statistical analyses, as well as process tracing and case studies. Both empirical analyses provide evidence to support the theory, challenging the claim that ethnic violence increases ethnic cohesion. Ultimately, I conclude that infighting during ethnic conflict is the irrational …
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Rescuing urban regeneration from urban patronage: towards inclusive development in the Voortrekker Road Corridor
… utilises the qualitative analysis method of process tracing for the period of 2012-2015 to explore themes of urban governance and conversely urban patronage. It firstly considers whether the apparent stasis is due to the Partnership being subjected to capture by strong private and political …
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Legions or legends : assessing U.S. Army and Marine effectiveness in the Korean War, 1950-1951
… the Retreat from the Yalu are analyzed using a process-tracing methodology to identify variations in performance between the two services and to determine the source of these differences when they exist. Predictions drawn from functional and cultural theories are employed to determine which …
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NEPA implementation and trust: linking stakeholder trust to substantive effectiveness in U.S. Forest Service fuels reduction projects
… effects and including the public in the process. Using documents and public comments from two U.S. Forest Service (USFS) Fuels Reduction projects in the Boulder Ranger District in Colorado, I assessed stakeholder trust judgements by coding trust types and frequencies. I then used process …
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When Laws and Representation Are Not Enough: Enduring Impunity and Post-Conflict Sexual Violence in Liberia and Sierra Leone
… violence. This comparative case study, using process tracing and the congruence method tests the hypothesis that governments in which there are high levels of female representation will be associated with lower levels of impunity for sexual assault and this will result in lower levels of …
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US Foreign Policy During the Nixon and Ford Administrations
… sources, using a variation of the theory-guided process tracing method to construct and interpret the narrative of events between 1970 and 1976. I conclude the study by reflecting on how best to evaluate US actions in Chile in the 1970s and speculating about the potential long tern consequences …
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